lilaznffairy421

[mood| happy]
[music| Still A Rose -- Bee]


I managed to find a way to gouge out a summer for myself! <3 If it all works out, I technically won't have anything that requires my physical presence this summer, so I'm free to go anywhere as long as the place has internet access. :D

I'm likely going to still end up staying in Davis just so I can stick with my internships as long as possible, and so I can keep teaching my kids and possibly work in the library again so I can have a slight bit of money to save up for my future, but this means that if I want or need a break, I can just take off and go basically whenever. *-*

I'm trying to talk myself out of taking another class in the spring at the moment. (I knew this would happen. -_-) I can take either of these for my major (I love this major <3 What I'm learning finally applies to real life.).
113: Growth and Development in Human Performance
+taught by my two favorite professors (I want an LOR from one of them)
+prereq for 117
117: Exercise and Aging in Health and Disease
taught by the professor who I can't ask for an LOR from
+but it's more interesting, is possibly easier and is the one I'd rather take
I think I'll audit the first one and take the second one. :] Dilemma over. I like how I talk myself out of this stuff.

Finals week is next week! Then I'll be two quarters away from graduating! w:Ow... I'm going to love filling out nursing school applications and putting down something that nears 300 when they ask how many units I completed at Davis. I hope they don't find this disturbing, deem me insane, and ditch my application. :[ I will cry a thousand rivers.

A rough estimate of how much monies I will need to borrow if I make it into one of my top choices:
$39,057.00 - Tuition
Fine. It's a private school. That's reasonable. >_>
$1,500.00 - Clinical Fees
Fine. Reasonable.
$40.00 - Fees
Ditto.
$3,527.00 - Books & Supplies
I've taken over 100 classes at Davis and I don't think the amount I've spent on books has gone past $500 yet. >_> What could I possibly be buying? o_o
$14,119.00 - Room & Board
If housing prices remain as they are and I find non-psycho people to live with, this could almost be cut in half.
$5,936.00 - Personal Expenses
I don't know what I could possibly spend $6000 on in a year. o_o
$7,144.00 - Transportation
That's apparently enough to travel to and from Brazil 7 times. Where could I possibly be going? o_o
Then there's a couple other fees. But I think I could live very comfortably for under $53,000. >_> Year 2 tuition is ~$17,000 and Year 3 tuition is ~$14,000, and if all went according to plan, I'd be working during years 2 + 3. I may be able to escape without incurring >$100,000 in debt! THERE IS HOPE FOR ME YET! <3

[mood| full]
[music| Tattoo -- Jordin Sparks]


My brother had this epic dream where he was fighting against things and I happened to be in the dream too. :O
F: Awesome! Was I hella badass?
S: As a matter of fact, you were!

However, I was on the other team, so he was fighting me. :O I think there were a bunch of different people fighting for different causes. I was fighting for The Journal, which I thought was really fitting until Sam said it was short for Wall Street Journal (...). He was a rogue, but he took out a ton of people. (There was something about me fighting for the light and him fighting for the dark. He's probably been playing too many games or watching too many movies.) I was apparently capable of taking a hell of a lot of damage ("like a tank") until I got to close range, and then I'd deal a shitload of damage. (He was attacking me with a morning star and I was using my bare fists.) Apparently, he eventually had to run because I was dealing way too much damage. :O That's pretty awesome. :D

We made an epic feast for Thanksgiving and I think all of us have slipped into food comas, but once we snap out of it, I think we're doing karaoke and watching Up. :D!

I'm kinda sad, because I came back to find that my cat has turned into a tank. I used to joke about it all the time, but this time, I am unfortunately not kidding. I'm even kinda tempted to ask my dad to chase her around when I'm gone so she'll get some exercise, because my countless attempts and pleas for my mom to stop feeding her so much go unheard. She is bigger than our turkey. She sat on my throat this morning and I nearly choked to death. Nooo, Ninja, don't be obese. :'(

But in light of everything, happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[mood| thankful]
[music| After the Lights -- Sweetbox]


I went in today for my follow-up visit, which I mistakenly presumed would not take over an hour, at most, so I'd be able to finish up on defining stuff on the psych study guide with Jaclyn, Rachel and Hannah by 4 p.m.

My doctor came in to see me and asked how my back was doing. For the last two weeks or so, my left leg, particularly my calf, has been in what feels like a pre-cramp stage and every now and then (especially when I'm walking, standing on my toes or some such activity), the muscle will seize up and I do my best to prevent myself from doubling over in pain. So I tell her this and she checks out my leg. She comments on how cold my left foot is--something I've never noticed, most likely because I've been in the study hovel, or wrapped up in blankets. She says it's like I've been walking around barefoot (but just my left foot). I ask her if I perhaps pinched a nerve, but pinched nerve symptoms usually entail pain, weakness, tingling, numbness--none of which I have other than the pain.

After a couple more tests, she asks if I can find anyone to take me to the emergency room, right away. This is about the time where I start getting really worried. :[ She tells me she's never seen a back injury turn into a DVT, but if that really is the case (or if the blood clot symptoms coincidentally started showing up), I should definitely get it checked out and not wait til tomorrow, lest it clot something in my brain and cause something catastrophic.

So instead of studying psych together, Rachel takes me to the ER because she's awesome. This is also a little sad, because I was just there yesterday, only I was behind the counter working as the ER receptionist. Oh the irony. But on the plus side, that means I already know everything I'm supposed to do. Somehow, I am shuttled inside about 10 seconds after I pick up the phone. (I only find this surprising because it always feels like everyone has to wait forever when I'm on the other side of the counter.) I tell the triage nurse what happens and hand her the envelope my doctor gave me. We get to talking about nursing school (hooray!) and she tells me that I should definitely check out what hospitals are affiliated with the schools I apply to, and to look for the ones with large teaching hospitals, so I get the most out of it and learn a lot. :]

I finish getting registered. ("Have you been here before?")
F: Funny story. I was actually here just yesterday volunteering as the receptionist.
("So that's why you look so familiar!")

So they do a D-dimer test and a blood chemistry test on me. While I wait for my results, I ponder about the blood mutation that never(?) was. The question mark is because they never did anything about it, which is essentially why I figured it's not an issue. They ruled out one type of mutation about 6 years ago, so meh.

In any case, my blood work is apparently fine. He said I can go back to exercising again if I so choose, but to (obviously) stop if it hurts. Basically, they think it is a muscle strain with really, really weird symptoms, so if anything starts going bad or the pain gets worse + I start having chest pain and shortness of breath, I am to go back immediately.

In the meantime, I'm supposed to tell my friends to call 911 for me if I happen to start exhibiting stroke-like symptoms. Fun stuff!

[mood| uhhhh...]
[music| Stay With Me -- Danity Kane]


We've transformed the living room into a study hovel. :O It's pretty awesome.

Next quarter looks completely disgusting, but seeing as how I may never go home next quarter anyway (since I don't get anything done there ;_; ), I might as well. I will likely be taking 11 classes. But before you completely lose faith in my sanity, hear me out! :[

True, I'm taking anatomy, and it's going to be a hell of a lot of work. But seeing as how things are going the way they are right now, I doubt I'll be getting out much anyway (aside from hanging out with 6F & Co. and a couple others). Right?

So in my defense, there are really only two classes that I will really be worrying about: Anatomy (+ lab) and Environmental Effects on Physical Performance (that's 10 units right there).

EXB 121 is being taught by my favorite science professor at this school, so I'm hoping it'll be okay. Nutrition 10 offers 30% worth of extra credit, so if I don't get an A+ in that class, it's going to be because I really, really don't want one. Orchestration is apparently being taught by Pablo, who reportedly doesn't like/forgets to give us work to do. Then there's piano lessons, group voice, a chamber ensemble, and two p.e. classes (hapkido and kickboxing). I finish by 5 p.m. on M-R and I only have a lab on Friday from 1-4 (I'm actually really bummed about the Friday lab, but I'm hoping this means I'll get to have class-less Fridays in the spring).

I need Barbara to confirm whether or not I can really have a 13 unit spring quarter. That would be effing amazing. *-*

Also, since Davis is being an ass and will likely be "reluctantly increasing student fees" (my ass it's reluctant >:[ ), I'm hoping SCC will offer Developmental Psych + Cultural Anthro in the summer at the Davis Center. Then I can take both those classes there for less than half the price it costs to take one unit at Davis during the summer. *-*

[mood| complacent]
[music| Run -- Leona Lewis]


I've been dubbed "The Broken One" in my household, but I guess this beats being called a Desiree, or "The Useless One." (Except I do actually have a use now. I'm the resident bug-squisher.) Since I'm not supposed to do anything remotely related to exertion, I have resigned myself to my fate (however, this does not stop me from bothering discussing with doctors and med students at clinic about whether or not I can do certain things ;_; ). It's really only because I feel disgustingly idle.
I have basically been reduced to this:
Naproxen every 8 hours
Super B-complex vitamins every 12 hours
heat pack on back for at least half an hour a day
Williams' Flexion exercises
back massages from roommates (they're effing awesome :O )

Yepyep. Such is life. I'm allowed to walk around though. (Yayy...)

But on the plus side, I made it through dance auditions alive! :D That might not have been such a good idea, but dude, cut me some slack, man. :[

I'm reallyyyy hoping I can go to Socal somewhere during this break. :D I can go to Medieval Times with Rey+Nadia and cheer for a knight while I stuff my face and also get a free consult from Nadia's mom. :D! If we get into the same school (honestly, there is only one school that we can both get into since we're in rather different fields), I think it'd be kinda awesome if we could work as bar wenches and cover each other's shifts and stuff. (Or just be waitresses...)

But, if I get into a school close enough to where Rey lives and her dad hasn't sold the house by then, she said she'd rent out the guest room to me. <3 <3 <3 Here is to hoping. I wonder if I can convince my parents to roadtrip down there during break so I can look at schools.

[mood| sad]
[music| Until You -- Shayne Ward]


This week really hasn't been one of the better ones.

Upon the urging of basically everyone, I went to see a doctor yesterday. Emo was making really weird sounds (he sounded like Suzanna), but I was extremely pressed for time because of the appointment, so I fed him and had to leave. I didn't get home until after 6 p.m., so all the vet clinics in Davis had already closed by then. I was planning to take him there this morning (kinda in the hopes that someone would be open despite it being Veteran's Day, or I could get the him to the Vet Med Teaching Hospital).

My final indicator that something was definitely wrong was the fact that he offered no resistance whatsoever when I picked him up and held him. (Usually, he flees at the sight of my hand.) He felt a lot lighter than before, and I noticed that he hadn't eaten anything all day. He already seemed so far gone, although his respiration rate was still normal.

But then I noticed how dull his eyes had gotten, how he wasn't moving anymore. The VMTH does have an emergency line you can call. But that's no longer helpful when he's already gone. I'm glad I could at least be there to hold him. I don't think I've ever watched anything die though.

I'm not sure if Emo ever really liked me. I was the Bringer of Food and possessed the Hand of Doom. (He'd play hard to get and then eventually give up and let me pick him up and cuddle with him.) Occasionally, he'd think I was awesome if I brought him out to the field to graze, but most of the time, he ignored my existence. But this doesn't negate how much I'm going to miss hearing his weird alien-like sounds throughout the day, or how much I'm going to miss having my very own vegetable compacter. Of everything, I think I'm going to miss hearing him chirp at me every morning the most. He was a hater at times, but he was so cute, he could be as much of a hater as he wanted and I'd still love him the same. He was such a trooper. :[

I'll miss you, Emo. :[[[


<3

[mood| pained :'( ]
[music| The Fiction We Live + Autumn's Monologue Remix]


So I'm in some considerable pain right now. If it doesn't go away by Saturday, I suppose I'll ask the doctors at clinic wtf is up with me.

I felt bones kinda shifting and I heard a crack. It is definitely in my lower back and somewhat affecting my left leg, which is currently feeling some kind of combination between loss of feeling (hah, loss of function >:[ ) and general weakness.

I can still go about my daily activities fairly normally, but it is rather painful. :'( Sadly, this is basically also my fault since I'm an EXB major and should know better, but I was being a dumbass, so I have no one to blame but myself. sigh. -_-

As luck would also have it, dance auditions are this weekend. Thanks, body, thanks. That was really necessary.

Rey: Help the broken one, Nadia.
Nadia: I already gave her what I had. :O

I was lying around on the floor and Rey gave me a back massage + tried to crack my back. Cereus came over and sniffed me because I seemed like I'd been disabled. But this is an improvement from fleeing at the mere sight of me. I'll take what I can get.

HOLY EFFING SHIT I'M GONNA WASTE AWAY AND MY MUSCLES ARE GOING TO ATROPHY. KILL ME NOW. ;_;
please get better by tomorrow. :'( :'( :'(

[mood| touched]
[music| Two Weeks In Hawaii -- hellogoodbye]

I bumped into my semi-tipsy brother at Mystery last night. He talks a lot louder, stands a lot closer, and pats me on the arm a lot more when he’s inebriated (hence, how I knew that he was). This is, however, an improvement from when he accidentally slips up and calls me "baby" when he’s sober. I gather that the reason for this is that Whitney’s actually at my house more often than I am, so he does it out of habit (usually when he's tired, or just not thinking). At times, Whitney and I are both in the room and we simultaneously get completely grossed out because this is just all levels of wrong. :[

Anyway, Rey and I walked home a little past midnight because we’re nerds. (Or rather, she had research, and I had clinic.) My dad called today to wish me a happy Halloween and to ask if I was going out to a party or anything. :O Both calls were during clinic, so I couldn’t pick up. I was slightly mystified though, because Halloween is generally not a holiday that he’d ever call me to wish me happy things on. (Any holiday is usually not normal in terms of him calling me. My birthday is not considered to be a holiday, but that’s sometimes questionable too. :O He means well though.) I thought it was rather nice of him. He sounded a little unsure on the messages he left–like he wanted to say something else, but did not. So I called him back and as it turns out, he was worried that I was sad, so he wanted to talk to me to make sure that I wasn’t, and to tell me to have fun today. :O Whatta nice soul. <3 I am rather touched, to say the least.

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The people I live with are awesome. :] I'm glad I don't have to deal with the added stress of a crappy living situation, or I think life would be a lot more difficult to deal with at the moment. I'm really going to miss them next year. :[

I like how when we were buying ice cream at Savemart on Saturday after dinner, a group of guys were looking at us and seemed to be pondering whether or not they should come over. Rey noticed this and decided to start hitting on Suzanna. ("Hey Aliceeeee, where you goin'?") I followed suit and started chasing after Suzanna, saying, "Can I has your numba? Can I? Can I? ...You work that updo!" They looked really confused since we were talking like fobs but without the accent, so they decided it best to just leave us be. (Better than the ones that called us China dolls at the restaurant though, right?)

[mood| annoyed]
[music| Rule the World -- Take That]


So I finally updated my budget, which I've been slacking on since...oh, I don't know, July. I've caught up on everything though. Last year, I managed to spend less than $10,000. This included rent, tuition, food, basically everything I'd spent down to the very last penny. it also included my trip to and from NY and Boston, so damn straight I was proud. >:O

This year was even more awesome! (August 2008-August 2009) :O I actually made a profit of approximately $2500, largely due to financial aid and the amount of hours I worked in the spring.

However, whatever profit I managed to salvage last year will effectively be obliterated starting next quarter thanks to the fact that they are increasing student fees by almost $600. Yeah, thanks a bunch, assholes.

...

Anyway. :| Completely separate from that, Cereus seems to hate me (for some reason unbeknownst to any of us). Her reaction to me when she sees me is somewhat akin to how Ninja reacts when my dad is anywhere near her. This is mildly depressing. :[ I have no idea what happened because up until last week, she'd play with me and let me pick her up and everything. ;_; But ever since her rabies shot, she's been acting kinda funny. Suzanna proposed that maybe it was because I smell like the person who gave her the shot. This, I really can't help, since I'm at a hospital or clinic 3 out of 7 days out of the week, and if showers don't wash away the "demon scent," what am I supposed to do? :'(

I wonder if it's because at night, I unknowingly practice astral projection and terrorize her. A likely story. :'(

[mood| amused]
[music| As Long As It Matters -- Gin Blossoms]


It's so weird knowing that this will be my last year at Davis (it better be, because I have no choice). I feel like I'm trying to do everything just because it may be the last time I ever get to, in a sense. I think Hawaii Club this year will be fun and hopefully de-stressing. :D I'm debating on whether or not to go on ski trip this year since it's...basically the last year. I went to the social tonight since it's one of the first times I've actually been able to make it to one (o_o) and it appears that the Naked Game has still stuck with the club members. (I think we introduced it to them during my second year at ski trip.) Team Awesome won. :D!

OH HELLO. Degree Navigator, you are my new best friend.

Good news!
If I want a future in music, my music GPA is a 3.86 (upper divs, yay.).

Bad news!
My EXB GPA is unmentionable (...).

Good news!
I only have to take 13 units in the spring (2 = piano lessons, another 2 = senior recital, which essentially means I'm taking 9 units.). P.E. classes, here I come!

Bad news!
I'm most likely going to be taking 23 in the winter.
(Good news: I will then have taken every single class taught by my favorite science professor at Davis.)

BUT HOLY SHIT! JUST 13 UNITS ARE YOU KIDDING ME. :O :O :O HOLY CRAP! :O! :O! :O!

[mood| chipper]
[music| The Fiction We Live -- From Autumn To Ashes]


This seems to happen every quarter.

They tell us our registration appointments next week! :O

So I'm basically trying to class-stalk one of my professors (aka take every single class he teaches this year) because I think he's freaking awesome/he makes lectures really interesting and because I eventually want a letter of rec from him. However, the latter cannot happen if he has no idea who I am, right? Yeah. I've taken only one of his classes so far. I audited another class where he was a guest speaker (that was completely unintentional though; I didn't know he'd be there :O ). I'm taking two classes in the spring that he'll be teaching + co-teaching with Shaffrath. I'm thinking of taking the class he teaches in the summer.

And now apparently, there's a class he's teaching next quarter! :O I reallyreallyreally want to take it. However (and there we have it, she finally gets to her point)...

I'm taking...
Clinical Exercise Physiology
Anatomy
Anatomy Lab
Piano lessons
Nutrition 10
Orchestration

Pros:
+another awesome class with an amazing professor
+up chances of a letter of rec! (hopefully)
+since my job is not time-consuming, i still have many more hours in a week than before
+I've done 24 units before

Cons:
-anatomy has the potential to be the death of me
-24 units was not previously done with anatomy in the picture
-what was that about giving myself a break?

In all likelihood, if auditing is not an option, I'm probably going to take it. >_> Screw them for not offering EXB 116 anymore. I really wanted to take that too. That's putting it mildly. I actually switched my major because of that class. hahhh. assholes.

I wish there were free practice rooms right now. :[ And I miss when the music building still seemed to have a soul.

Someone came up with the bright idea of me taking the class P/NP and I officially feel like a retard now (how did I not think of that? :'[ ). It seems to be the perfect solution, although if I end up getting an A in that class, I will probably end up crying buckets because a 4 unit A would really help my GPA. sigh. I sound like such an Asian (big surprise there).

[mood| tired]
[music| Take My Hand -- The Cab]


From 7:25 a.m. 10:45 p.m. yesterday, I was at home for a grand total of 15 minutes, tops (clinic, fliering in Sac, studying at Al's). Daniel called me when I got back home to tell me that his friend was in the parking lot, but that I should check to make sure it was really her, and if it wasn't, he'd come rescue me. (I didn't get kidnapped though, as you might have guessed. :O )

Vanessa and I went to clinic yesterday morning, but since we got there 10 minutes early, we sat in the car to wait for the door to be unlocked. I was dozing off when she pointed out that there was a guy trying to catch a chicken across the street.

For the next 6 minutes, we watched him chase a chicken around a fenced-in pen.
Then we watched slit the chicken's throat and put the body in a box.
Then he biked away with the box.

F+V: . . .

Definitely not one of the things I ever expect to see in the morning. o_o

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In other news, my study group is awesome. :D I met two of them...yesterday. One used to be my ochem study buddy, and...well, Al and I have been in the same two majors since forever. We actually get stuff done! (Yayy...) It's pretty awesome. :O

...Wow. :[ Too bad this doesn't mean I'm doing any better on the tests. I can't decide which one I hate the most--stupid mistakes on a test you could have aced, or thinking a test was easy and finding out that you actually didn't do well on it. After the initial anger comes depression, so I'm kinda in a mix of the two right now. This is probably why I constantly feel like hurting things. I need to find a class that lets me beat things up, or this is likely not healthy.

[mood| disturbed]
[music| You Had Me At Hello -- A Day To Remember]


The tree has been extracted from the swimming pool! (That was perhaps the highlight of my day. I know. Sad. But dude, yesterday's weather sucked ass. o_o)

"You have a pretty voice. We're going to work with you so you can learn to bring that out."
<3!!!

I might get to join a band! :O I was at the meeting yesterday and I saw Dio talking rather excitedly about something and pointing at me.
F: ?
D: She's awesome with the keys!
F: What's going on?
D: We should form a band!
Apparently he plays drums and one of the new guys plays guitar and there is a bass player lurking somewhere. :O If this actually gets started up, Dio has agreed to give me uke lessons. (At long last! <3 ) That'd be freaking awesome. :O How cool would that be? :O :O But yeah, I need to start managing my time like no other if I really do end up doing all the stuff I want to do. (I don't even have to make a senior year bucket list. It's all just coming at me. o_o)

On another note, it's a good thing I decided not to pursue a third major. I think I received a sign from above on Monday as to why I'd made the right decision. (Apparently, I'd have to take advanced theory. Yeah, no.)

Keat sent me World of Wifecraft and I think it's freaking hilarious. :O

[mood| chipper]
[music| If It Means A Lot To You -- A Day To Remember]


I went with Joanne to Trader Joe's this weekend and we bought awesome foods + had a tailgate party on my driveway. (bread + mozzarella balls + tomatoes + hummus = amazing.) Since we're apparently on the same timeline, it'd be freaking awesome if she got into a law school+I got into a nursing school near each other. Then we could live together and I wouldn't have to worry about psychos. :'(

In case anyone cares, I only need to find two more cursed tools and have them blessed before I can finally start finding the mythic stones so I can upgrade all my tools to the very last level. For some reason though, I'm having trouble unlocking the fourth mine, even though I've fed the princess awesome (well, ultimate) curry already. Why.
...Ah. I haven't reached floor 999 yet. That'd explain things. I need to get all the cursed accessories too. On the bright side, I can marry Kai when he comes back because I've finally saved the Harvest Goddess. Now for my island...

I can't call myself a jack of all trades anymore because when abbreviated, it's JOAT, and thanks to Henry (kinda), it's now been associated to "jack off all the time." thanksssss.

So...I can apparently start volunteering at Sutter. But this girl just took the only available spot that I could have done. gg, I'm hella sad. ;_;

[mood| cheerful]
[music| Marco & Gina -- Jetbeat]


They're awesome! :D

It's actually really rare when we're all there together, but I think the rarity makes us appreciate the company that much more. I like that at 2 a.m., I can still have company because Nadia can't sleep and we end up making retarded lists online. I like that I have someone to de-stress with and take dance classes with. I like that although Suzanna and I don't share a room anymore, we still randomly run into each other's rooms and do really stupid things.

(early morning)
F: Hey Suzanna! Do you think these are actual abs, or is it just because I was bending over for too long?
S: I think those are abs, Farrah. Look! I have them too!
F+S: (stand in front of full-length mirror and cheer)

Nadia: (using me as a heater)
F: Why, Nadia, why!
N: You're warm!
F: Why are you so cold?
N: I've always been cold. (puts hands on my neck)
F: AHHHHHHH!!!! How about I buy you a Snuggie for Christmas?
N: Those are so ugly. No.
F: But you'll be warm!
N: No!!!

I was going off to shower today when Suzanna noticed a giant spider on the wall. She grabbed a wad of toilet paper for me, since I didn't have a container to catch it in.
F: (squish)
S+F: Ewwwwww.
Rey & Nadia: (now also in the bathroom) What's wrong?
F: A crunchy spider.
Rey: (look of utter disdain)
R+N: (start back down the stairs)
F: (throws a pair of socks at Rey)
N: What was that for?!
F: :O! I'm sorry! That was meant for Rey because I didn't appreciate the look of disdain she gave me. She walked too fast. :[
N: I had nothing to do with it! :[
F: I know! But this is like that time when you were throwing me a pillow and you hit me in the face with it. :O
N: But I didn't mean to!
F: I didn't either this time! <3

we're pretty ridiculous.

I decided to see how long it'd take me to run to work today. Apparently, it takes the same amount of time for me to bike as it does for me to run. (...) This was on legs day too! :O Oh, how proud I am of myself.
S: Either you run hella fast or you bike really slow.
I think on my bike, there's just lag time when I'm waiting for cars to pass so I can turn. >_>

[mood| amused]
[music| Fuzzy Blue Lights -- Owl City]

Okay so a couple days ago, since I'm freaking awesome, I asked my friend for his number, Mad-TV-"Can I Have Your Number?"-style. I'm hella cool. :O

Or not really. It wasn't anywhere near as annoying. I just said something along the lines of, "Can I has your number?" with the dude's accent. And I suppose this really doesn't count because I've known him for awhile and we used to study for physiology, but I never had to know his number at the time because our lab group would always meet at the same time and place every week to work on our presentations and such.

Anyway. The UCD Mind and Brain Center emailed me to see if I'd be interested in doing another brain study! :D I am quite excited, although I'm not really sure if I'll pass the initial screening. I hope I do, because that means a number of things:
1) more money!
2) I get an MRI, and they'll give me a picture of my brain.

Which I think would be pretty cool. :O I'd perhaps get to see why my brain functions the way it does (or at the very least, see what my brain looks like, and I'd have living proof of whether or not it really is as small as people like to joke :'( ). Kidding. I just think it'd be cool.

I am sounding mildly incoherent because I have been up since 7 a.m. and since then, I think I've only been home for an hour. Yeah. Funnn stuff. On another note, I believe I have my third hospital internship. Hooray! <3

Nadia: I've never watched a Korean drama, but I know the perfect recipe for one.
(Here's our list.)

Recipe for a Korean Drama
Cancer
Car accident
Amnesia
Known each other since childhood
Siblings (or step-siblings) falling in love with each other
Evil aunt
Bitter family member
Friend who's in love with protagonist
One goes away to study abroad
Rich guy, poor girl, or vice versa (and disapproval from rich family)
Guy has to cry one tear (just one)
Someone has to die
No happy endings

[mood| in awe]
[music| Hey Soul Sister -- Train]


I went in to work on Lunar Festival since I was planning on staying in Davis anyway. We didn't have too many patients today (~30 or a little more), and I was speculating as to whether this was because we no longer have a pharmacy, or if it was because it was Lunar Festival and it's bad luck to come then (or they could all be at home preparing delicious foods). In any case, I'd taken over the helper's job since they were nowhere to be found. One of the patients was complimenting me on my Chinese (Mandarin).
F: Thank you! :D
P: Are you from Taiwan?
F: (positively glowing--"my Chinese is good enough to have me be mistaken for someone from Asia! holy shitcakes!") :O!!! No, I grew up here.
P: Are your parents from there?
F: Nope. One's from Guangzhou and the other's from Hong Kong.
P: Wow, your Chinese is really good.
F: <3!!!

[mood| excited]
[music| Utopia -- Within Temptation]


"I always thought you were really quiet when I met you last year, Farrah. You're so much more animated than I remember." (says Dori as I'm learning to eat a pomegranate that he picked off of a tree near his house)
Just wait. :O It's only because it's the beginning of the school year and the beginning of this quarter. I think by spring quarter, it's over.

We had our last pill popping party ever tonight. I'm really sad. :[ As much as I hate working in the pharmacy, if it meant that we could still keep it open, I'd still do it. :[ Now we're screening every single patient that comes in to see if they're eligible for PAP so we can sign them up for that. I'm going to miss having clinic at this location too. :[[ But tonight was actually really fun. We finished our work pretty effing quickly (under 1.5 hours; I think we were all set to go until I found ~20 boxes of Ambien).

I found my osteoporosis poster hiding out in the back, so I've rescued it and have every intention of plagiarizing something off wikipedia and translating it all into Chinese (Martin okayed it, so I'm fine). I'm the only one working on this presentation, so I think I should get some leeway. If I'm feeling ambitious enough, maybe I can do the mandarin portion too.

Also, I think Mike is freaking awesome. :D :D :D I've been coveting this Chinese & Spanish medical dictionary that we have at clinic ever since I first set foot into clinic and discovered it (a year and 3 months ago), but I was told that if they gave one to me, everyone would want one and they didn't have enough to go around. Today, I decided that enough was enough. I asked if I could buy it off clinic.
Mike: How many do we have?
F: We have a drawer of em'. :O
M: Just take it.
F: *_* REALLY?!
M: (Whoa. o_o) Yeah, just take it.
F: Thank you so much! XD!!!
M: (...wow.) We'll test you on it. :]
F: ._. shit.

Hooray hooray! :D :D :D

I was mildly devastated when I heard that he wasn't coming to clinic today because he was the one that was supposed to feed us dinner, and I'd been looking forward to this food all day. He ended up running there from home (5 miles in half an hour. double you tee eff) and ran back afterward. This has apparently been going on for the last 3 days because he has to check the temperature in the fridge to make sure our flu vaccines are doing okay. I think all of us are required to get H1N1 vaccines at health fair. I hope there are no crazy side effects.

I think tonight's dinner was the best meal PHAC has ever fed us. We made a sad toast and said our farewells to the pharmacy. (And soon, our clinic as well. ;_; Or at least, its current location.) I have lunch tomorrow since we had so many leftovers. :D

[mood| tired]
[music| Sam singing BBMak]


So while I was home for my first summer break ever since 2007, I went movie-hopping with my brother one day. We watched District 9, Inglourious Basterds, and G.I. Joe.

Today, Sam asks: Have you seen Inglourious Basterds?
F: . . .
S: (pause) ...Yes! You have! Have you seen District 9? Yes, you have! Have you seen G.I. Joe? Yes, you also have!
F: You're just trying to save yourself, huh?
S: Of course not.

Sam's basically been my roommate since Tuesday night, since he's staying around for a friend's birthday tomorrow and such. I came home with my family on Sunday night. Europe was really fun, although extremely tiring, since we basically woke up really early every morning and ran around different parts of Germany, France, Spain and Italy, and would end up sleeping at midnight or later. Hence, the day before we were to disembark from the ship, my dad got sick. We unfortunately also had to sit in front of this guy who didn't believe in covering his mouth or using tissues or anything when he coughed, sneezed, etc. It was pretty disgusting. 12 hours. ;_; Anyway, my mom and I ended up getting sick too. I started to wonder whether or not it was swine flu. :[ But I'm better now so hooray.

I turned into an insomniac for the past couple days. When I first got back to Davis, I fixed up my entire room other than the closet (since my brother is currently sleeping in my closet) and talked to Nadia til 4:15 a.m. I woke up at 7:14 a.m. feeling as though I'd slept for 8 hours. sigh. :[ I lay there for an hour feeling extremely bored and heard Suzanna's alarm clock go off.
F: Hooray!!! Company! :D :D :D
(Suzanna presumably hits the snooze button.)
F: (dies a little inside)
Then my dad called, and I tried to get me to talk to me more.
DF: You should get some rest. Go back to sleep!
F: But I can't sleep. ;_;
If I'd been given a dollar for every time someone told me to lie down or go to sleep from Sunday to now, I'd be filthy rich. ;_;

Somehow, despite eating at least 2 appetizers, 2 main courses, and a dessert every night and buffets in the morning, I ended up losing 5 pounds when I got home. I sincerely hope my muscles didn't murder themselves to that extent because of my laziness the previous week before I went. ;_;

I decided to go for a run with Suzanna after she stopped snoozing. It probably wasn't the best of ideas, since I ended up feeling like complete shit for hours afterward. On the plus side, I don't feel like dying would be a better option anymore. (Tuesday was effing horrible. ;_; Whenever I got up, the room would spin and I wouldn't be able to see for several minutes. I couldn't eat or sleep, and the only two beings who would come near me or pay attention to me were my mom and Ninja.)

[mood| relieved]
[music| Jade channel]


Several months ago, I signed up for automatic bill payment for Davis so I wouldn't have to worry about logging in every now and then to see if I owed anything to school. Starting the fall of 2009, UC Davis decided to implement a policy where they'd drop you from all your classes if you didn't pay your bills in time. They also decided to raise the late payment fee by $65. You see where this is going, yeah? As luck would have it, this quarter happened to be the one and only time the automatic bill payment decides not to pay it automatically, apparently because the bill is over $3000. So much for being automatic. Hence, I came home Sunday night to find that all my classes had disappeared. In the "Student Day & Time," there was no longer a "View Next Week" option. My future had effectively been murdered. A registration freeze was also slapped onto all the students until yesterday.

I'm being overdramatic. However, it did kinda screw with my future because one of the classes was extremely essential, but no longer had spaces left. It also happened to be a prerequisite for a class that I had to take in the winter of 2010. (For reference, the classes are only offered once a year in a certain quarter--fall and winter, respectively.) I'd have to stay an extra two quarters just for two classes, right? Not really. As of December 2008, both my deans approved my four year plan (best [and only] Christmas present I've ever received from my school :O ), effectively giving me the freedom to do whatever the hell I wanted in terms of taking classes--so long as I finished by June of 2010. It wouldn't have been the end of my life. I'd just graduate with only one major and my last 3 years of class-hoarding and compiling would all be for naught.

I sent an urgent message to my professor to, if it were in his power, hold a spot for me in his class because I was in rather dire need of it. In a previous email, he'd told us, "The first class will be at 10 a.m. on September 24th, Thursday. DO NOT EVEN VAGUELY DREAM OF NOT BEING THERE." Kinda scary. He replied last night saying he was just about to rip me a new one for not reading the email he sent over the weekend, but then he realized that I'd probably been dropped from the class mailing list and so, never mind. (Whew.)

Long story short, I got all my classes back by 6:00:30 this morning so it was pretty anticlimactic. The exceptions are kickboxing and rock climbing, which I am deeply saddened by (I'm waitlisted 49 and 15. ;_; ), but I will live. I'm sure it happened for a reason. My schedule is freakishly empty and it kinda scares me. :[ Now I have an extra 19.5 hours per week. O:

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Supernatural season 5 is amazinggg. :D It gets more intense per season, and no matter how shitty my mood, Jensen Ackles always manages to make me laugh.
"Life as an angel condom? No thanks."

Nadia called me last night to see if I was in town yet. Before I left for home, I'd been in the process of moving in and had taken up residence in her bed, but I had to leave before Desiree had moved out and Nadia had already left for Mexico, so I piled all my blankets nicely on her bed. When she got back to Davis and saw her bed (7 blankets neatly laid out), she thought I'd been using all 7 of them throughout the time that I'd been sleeping there and figured I lacked a circulation system. :'(

Brian and I decided to rewatch the entire Nana series [spoiler alert so if you follow the anime at all and don't know about this yet, stop reading :O ] over because it's freaking amazing. I've been planning to do that for some time now, but I'd been putting it off because holing yourself up in your room in the dark and watching an extremely depressing (but extremely plausible and realistic and holy shit the characters are so well developed and the music is beautiful) qualifies for extreme loner+recluse status.

However, if you add in a friend while you do this, it makes it all okay. You're not fangirling by yourself over a depressing anime where, on his way to see his wife on her birthday to fix things between them, your favorite character dies in a car accident and his face so mutilated beyond recognition that they won't even draw it in the manga, but oh, his perfect guitarist hands are in perfect condition. That's freaking messed up. Anyway. Instead, you're spending time with a friend and enjoying an awesome anime. It's amazing how that works.